Record-card.



J. MAGLAGAN.

RECORD CARD.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 16, 1907.

9 1 2,969 Patented Feb. 16, 1909.

flssured UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

JAMES MACLAGAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TQCHARLES F.McMANNUS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

RE CORD-CARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb.' 16, 1909.

Application filed January 16, 1907. Serial No. 352,494.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES MAGLAGAN, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Record-Cards, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to record cards, particularly to fire insurancerecord cards.

It has for its object to provide a card of this character having spaceson its front and rear faces for receiving information relative to aninsurance transaction, headings printed or otherwise placed over saidspaces to indicate the required information and the spaces in which itis to be placed and a pocket for containing the contract forms relativeto the transaction, thereby providing a card adapted to contain acomplete and independent record of each insurance transaction in suchform that it may be easily and readily referred to.

It has for a further object to provide a card of this characterembodying advantages in point of simplicity and inexpensiveness ofconstruction and durability.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a front face view of my card showing thepocket and a contract paper therein. Fig. 2 a rear face view, and Fig. 3an edge view.

Like reference characters designate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawin s illustrating my invention.

eferring to the drawings, 1 designates the record card which may be ofany suitable material, size or shape, and having on its front face 2, apocket 3, open at each end, and adapted to contain a contract form 4:relative to an insurance transaction, the pocket being formed of a strip5 of any clesired material, having its upper and lower edges 6 turnedover and pasted or otherwise secured to the front face of the card, andprovided with a hole 7 extending through it to afford means for easilysliding the contract form out of the pocket by bringing one of thefingers into contact therewith.

The front and rear faces of the card are divided by longitudinal andtransverse lines, printed. or otherwise placed thereon, into spaces inwhich to record the required information relative to an insurancetransaction and over each of these tables headings are printed orotherwise placed to indicate the required information and the spaces inwhich it is to be placed.

The front face of the card is adapted to have placed thereon by theagent or employee of the company, under the proper headings, informationrelative to the original application, the expiration thereof and therenewal thereof, if renewed, and the rear face is adapted to have placedthereon information relative to the nature and location of the propertyinsured and the insurance, by the original insuring company, of part ofits risk in another insurance company, if it desires to make a divisionthereof.

It .will be understood that this card is made out in applying forinsurance, by the agent and sent to the office of the company, thecontract is then placed in the pocket and the card filed away, therebyobviating the necessity for the clerks in the oflice of the company,making it out and instead of having the cards and contract filed awayseparately, the complete record of each transaction is filed away in onepackage, which can be easily and quickly handled and referred to.

I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise detailsand arrangements of parts shown and described, but reserve the right toall modifications within the scope of my invention.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

A record device having a pocket and constructed of two parts, one partconsisting of a. resilient card forming one wall of said pocket, and theother part consisting of a resilient strip of less width but of the samelength as the said card forming the other wall of said pocket and havinga finger hole, the side edges of said strip being turned under andpermanently secured to said card from end to end and the end edges beingfree and in alinement with the ends of said card, substantially asdescribed.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York,this lth day of January A. D. 1907.

JAMES MACLAGAN. l/Vitnesses:

A. B. BLACKWOOD, A. R. APPLEMAN.

